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Dragonletby =emla

Traditional Art / Paintings / Fantasy

Gouache, 8x10"

Personal work; I'm experimenting a little with dragons having wings more like fish-fins or pterosaurs than bat wings. More to come on that line of though.

WIPs via instagram on my tumblr: [link]

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~bonefish Mar 30, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

I like the design on this fellow. The finlike wings are a neat departure from the more typical bat-type dragon wings. I'm interested to see where you go with this theme!

=emla Apr 3, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

Thanks!

~aboveClouds Mar 10, 2013 Digital Artist

I absolutely love how the reds work with the dark blues in the background. Man, that is such a cool color combination!

You did a wonderful job with the patterning on the dragon.

~NestorG2020 Mar 6, 2013 Student General Artist

Amazing!

*SunStateGalleries Mar 4, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

Do you use Daniel Smith granulating watercolors? Or is it just the salt that created the pattern? It is fantastic!!

=emla Mar 6, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

Thanks! The patterning here is part salt, and part dropping higher concentrations of pigment into a wet wash.

*SunStateGalleries Mar 6, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

Oh that makes sense! Whenever I try it the salt dissolves too quickly xP

=emla Mar 6, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

I get better results if I use the salt when the wash is wet, but there isn't an actual puddle of water sitting on the page. If there's too much water, the salt will dissolve before it can do anything.

As a reference point, you should still be able to see the grains sitting on the wash when you sprinkle them on. In fact, the grains don't usually finish dissolving on mine before the wash dries, and I brush them off as soon as I'm sure the color is dry.

*SunStateGalleries Mar 6, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

Hmmm I might just need larger crystals, I have very very fine salt. I usually throw it on as soon as the wash is down else the paint soaks in and stains the paper before the salt has time to remove the pigment, basically I have no idea what I did to achieve this [link] where as now it hardly makes a difference (and the paper in this one is much higher quality than the first image) [link] and I used a ton of salt on that image.

I used to mix my watercolors with ink for more vibrancy and purity of color, but since then I have much higher quality paints so I am not sure what I am doing wrong... :1

=emla Mar 8, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

I actually use regular table salt. I've tried larger-grained sea salt, but it doesn't seem to work as well for me. I put salt onto the wash pretty much immediately as well, but the thing is you have to be careful about how much water you mix in before you lay it down. I pretty much never have so much water in my washes that their surface tension forms a clearly visible bubble. If your washes are doing that, you may have too high a proportion of water to use salt.

I also use paint from a tube these days, because it makes it much much easier to mix a very dark wash with a high concentration of pigment.

...maybe I'll try to photograph some of my salt effects in-progress, so people can really see how much water there is.

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